Mistress of Huntleigh Hall — Linda Swift

Lost love... Traitorous plots... Fulfilled promises... Alice Wykeham waits ten years for Malcolm Gray to return from the sea, but then her father arranges her marriage to an elderly Lord. Malcolm, shipwrecked, injured, and with changed appearance, returns too late to claim his love. He settles in Hull to be near Alice without her knowledge. When Alice's sister Mary falls for his unsuitable employee, matters become complicated. Alice soon discovers her husband Lord Talbot's involvement in a plan against the king and the use of her dowry for the cause. How will Mary's situation and the Gunpowder Plot affect Alice and the only man she will ever love?